Published at 23rd of November 2022 9:59 am

Chapter 22

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Instead of answering, the Duke's Grandmother, who swung around loudly, snapped his tongue.

"It's hideous. I'd rather leave the attic unattended."

Evelyn's eyes narrowed.

"There's no progress at all."

"......."

"Even considering that's all I've learned, I can't stand it."...."

Beyond the frame of my glasses, I wouldn't say I liked the look.

However, Evelyn had no reason to hear such harsh words from the Duke's Grandmother.

Taking a step forward, she opened her mouth coldly.

"The Duke."

With a calm voice, the Duke's Grandmother raised her eyebrows as if for some reason.

"This is my coffee house, so watch your language."

"What did you say? What did you say?"

In a spontaneous protest, the Duke's Grandmother's face turned red.

But Evelyn nodded calmly.

"Yes, as the owner of this business, I have the right to restrain anyone who commits acts of violence."

"What blasphemy......!"

The Duke's Grandmother widened her eyes.

It was shocking that Evelyn's attitude had changed, a far cry from the Evelyn of seven years ago.

"At that time, I revealed the money in a vulgar way, but I was obedient!"

But unlike then, Evelyn was not losing a word.

"I had to get paid to raise Bianca before, so even so.......'

In this case, Evelyn had no reason to kneel.

It was the other person who made a mistake.

"The Duke doesn't deserve such a reputation for my coffee house."

Therefore, Evelyn did not back down an inch.

"I think it's a good enough reason to report as an obstruction of business if you come after an individual's place of business and talk about cutting it down."

"......Are you saying that you're reporting me?"

"How come I can't?"

Evelyn asked back calmly.

"The Duke is a high-ranking aristocrat, but he's not above imperial law, is he?"

Towards the Duke Grandmother, who trembled at the tip of her lips, Evelyn struck a note.

"As a guest at the coffee house, enjoy your coffee quietly, or leave."

"You......!"

"If you can't accept those two proposals, you have no choice but to report them to the magistrate."

Evelyn faced the Duke's Grandmother with a grim face.

Out of anger, the Duchess chewed mercilessly on the soft flesh in her lips.

But it was confirmed that the situation was not favorable to me.

I couldn't beat him and raised my voice to the fullest, so the customers at the coffee house were paying attention this way.

The Neidhart duchess was a family of high dignity, a family named prestigious family.

If there's a rumor going around that the elder of such a family has committed atrocities in a coffee house.......

"You're the one who didn't keep the promise first, aren't you?"

The Duchess said, barely holding back the quarter.

Evelyn narrowed her brows unconsciously.

'You didn't keep your promise?'

"I'll be back in a few minutes, so I'll talk to you then."

The duchess walked out of the coffee house, leaving only that word.

Of course, it was Evelyn's job to apologize to the guests.

"I'm sorry to have caused a disturbance."

The guests' embarrassment ended with turning one cookie at a time, but the heart beating at will didn't calm down quickly.

Back in the kitchen, Evelyn pressed her chest hard with her hands.

'She's the Duke of Neidhart's Grandmother. Was I too much?

You're not going to do anything behind the scenes, are you?

But I won't touch the money I put in the bank, so should I take Bianca back to the system if it's a real problem?

My head became as dizzy as tangled threads.

'But Bianca wasn't around...... I'm so glad to hear that.'

Bianca must be devastated if she sees her mother fighting loudly with others.

Furthermore, things get complicated if the Duchess witnesses Bianca and discusses Bianca's birth.

"So I need to clear my lines."

Evelyn was very determined.

By 4 p.m., guests had left.

At the same time, the Duchess entered a quiet coffee house.

The Duke's Grandmother crumpled her face and opened her mouth.

"You don't know the manners of keeping people waiting outside like this, do you?"

"I've already told you that I don't mind being a guest at the coffee house."

Evelyn replied calmly.

It was true. Evelyn told me to sit inside and wait or leave.

The Duchess, speechless, coughed in vain.

The Duke's Grandmother stepped inside and sat down first.

It points to the opposite seat with a chin.

"Sit down."

"......."

Evelyn was treated as a subordinate, but Evelyn first sat down.

Leaning to the back of the chair, the Duchess stared at Evelyn with an unpleasant face.

An uncomfortable silence ensued.

It was as if you were telling Evelyn to 'know your fault'.

With a short sigh, Evelyn opened her mouth.

"You said I didn't keep my promise."

With a calm voice, the Duke's Grandmother squinted.

Evelyn looked straight into the eyes of the Duke's Grandmother.

"But I don't know what promise I didn't keep."

"You have returned to Hildes! How dare you come back......!"

The Duke's Grandmother shouted in a hoarse voice, but Evelyn was relieved.

By saying that, Evelyn and Islay don't know they've recently met again.

Since then, of course, Islay has tried to mend fences.......

Evelyn single pulled her lips.

"I only promised to break up with the Duke of Neidhart."

"What?!"

"I've never promised to leave the system and never return."

The Duke's Grandmother gritted her teeth until a crack was heard.

The Duchess knew better that Evelyn was correct in principle.

At that time, the Duke's loaner handed over money in return for breaking up with Islay.

In that 'break up' condition, 'Evelyn leaving the system and disappearing' was omitted.

It's just that the Duke's Grandmother thought, 'You've given me a lot of money, so I should do it.'

"And my departure from the system itself was an utmost effort at the promise I made to the Duke."

Unable to overcome her resentment, the Duke's Grandmother clenched her fist.

"At that time, to completely break up with the Duke...... I've abandoned the foundation of my life."

But unlike the angry Duke Grandmother, Evelyn's voice was as still as a thin-ice lake.

"After seven years, you're telling me not to even step into the system......."

The Duke's Grandmother stared at Evelyn with her shining eyes.

But Evelyn, far from avoiding that gaze, instead returned a pale smile.

"...... Isn't that far-fetched?"

The feisty Duke Grandmother tried to protest, but Evelyn's words were a little faster.

"And there's a reason to stay in the whole system."

"Don't tell me you tried to......!"

"No way."

Evelyn laughed coldly.

In response, various emotions crossed the Duke's face.

A sense of relief that the lady of the fallen aristocracy, who was close to a commoner, was not entangled with her precious grandson.

And anger at how everyone dared to answer 'I don't want' their good grandson.

Seeing through it, Evelyn smiled in vain.

"I'm sorry, but I have someone far more precious than you."

"......a precious person? Who's that?"

The Duke's Grandmother asked back with a knitted forehead.

Evelyn shrugged lightly.

"My daughter."

"Daughter?"

In that confident answer, the Duke's Grandmother looked dumbfounded for a moment.

Daughter? Are you saying you've been married for the past seven years? With a suspicious look on her face, the Duke's Grandmother glanced down to Evelyn's left hand.

But Evelyn's hand didn't have a wedding ring.

It's weird.

Deep wrinkles formed between the eyes of the Duke's Grandmother.

Of course, it deals mainly with food, so that you may have taken off the ring for a while.

But in that case, there should be traces of a ring on your finger.

The Duke's Grandmother, who had been agonizing for a while, opened her mouth.

"Looking so confident, I don't think she's my grandson's daughter."

"Of course, it's not your granddaughter. I couldn't have lived alone for seven years, could I?"

"Then are you married?"

"No."

In a calm response, the Duke's Grandmother's face was appalled.

If the sun had risen from the west tomorrow, I wouldn't have looked so surprised.

The Duke's Grandmother, who opened her eyes wide, reprimanded Evelyn.

"Then, did you give birth to a daughter without getting married?"

"That's right."

"Oh, my God, I knew it was vulgar, but I didn't know she didn't know the bottom."...!"

Now the Duke's Grandmother did not hide his loathing for Evelyn.

Then Evelyn squinted back and asked.

"The Duke's Grandmother. Did I hurt others by giving birth to a daughter?"

"What, what?!"

"Or did I neglect or abuse her?"

At Evelyn's question, the Duchess felt speechless.

"My daughter and I are a loving family."

"What are you talking back to, being blind?"

"There's no reason to be looked at by the Duke, no reason to be treated as an incomplete family."

"I'm not ashamed to have a baby alone without a husband......!"

The Duke's Grandmother was now shuddering as if she had come into contact with dirt.

Looking at the raw loathing, Evelyn soothed her wounded heart.

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